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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

If we are going to have four drones there, we need to be able to resource them.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

I mentioned, Senator McCain, before you got here how valuable our visit to your border, your State's border with Mexico, was for me.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

Last month, I was able to visit portions of the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona with one of our colleagues, Senator John McCain.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

we have been talking a lot about the physical border and the security measures, and I can tell you, it has drastically changed.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

Find out what works and do more of that. Find out what does not work and do less of that.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

My real question is, is it a fool's errand to think that we can develop the technology...

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

I believe that our efforts, and especially those of the dedicated men and women who work along the border, are paying off for the American taxpayers, and they need to.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

I am concerned about two things in particular: refugees and student visas.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

I just want to say thank you so much for coming early and staying late yet again--as we all are.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

We need to focus while we work on the symptoms, which are more visible and which we talk about a whole lot, but think about the underlying causes.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

For every President I have seen here since Ronald Reagan right up through President Obama, there is a similar kind of discipline at work.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

I believe in due process, but I still would do it.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

we do share pretty heavily with the Mexican Government in terms of air tracks.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

I do not know that we are ever going to get to that simple example that I cited earlier...

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

That is a remarkable development and clearly a significant change for the better.

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

Our job is to say, what are our goals? Where is the money? How effectively are we doing it?

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Thomas Carper
@thomascarper· Democratic · DE· Mar 13, 2013

I saw a border that appears to me to be--and to a lot of other people--more secure than it has ever been.

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